USHRN Takes the Right to Water and Sanitation to a Human Rights Tribunal

The critical need for affordable, fresh drinking water has been the subject of several posts on this blog. Now the US Human Rights Network announced that on July 28th it, along with twenty other organizations and individuals, requested a…

by Jeremiah Ho Editor's Note: Professor Ho completes his three part series with this discussion of post Obergefell Advancement As an anti-stereotyping principle, the concepts of animus and dignity interwoven by Kennedy in Obergefell serves to…

By Jeremiah Ho Editors' note: This post is part one of three posts. Today's post explores the history of Justice Kennedy's use of the language of animus and dignity, setting the stage for tomorrow's post on next steps. Last month...

New Issue: New York University Journal of International Law and Politic

The latest issue of the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (Vol. 47, no. 2, Winter 2015) is out. Contents include:Forum: Navigating Deterrence: Law, Strategy, and Security in the Twenty-First CenturyZachary K.…

Bartels: The Relationship between the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measure

Lorand Bartels (Univ. of Cambridge - Law) has posted The Relationship between the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. Here's the abstract: Since the expiry of the ‘peace clause’…

On July 23, 2015, by a vote of 5-2, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed as improvidently allowed Ohio Bur. of Workers’ Comp. v. McKinley, Slip Opinion No. 2015-Ohio-2927. Justices Kennedy and French dissented. The issue in the case…

On July 14, 2015, by a vote of 5-2, the Supreme Court of Ohio sua sponte dismissed as improvidently accepted Kuhn v. Kuhn, Slip Opinion No. 2015-Ohio-2806. The issue in the case was whether a signing bonus for oil … Continue…

Eric Long was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life without the possibility of parole for his role in two homicides in Hamilton County in March of 2009. He was seventeen when the crimes were committed. The First District…

Info/Law

I have a new essay coming out in Loyola University Chicago Law Journal titled Sharing Shortcomings. Comments and feedback are very much welcomed. Here’s the abstract: Current cybersecurity policy emphasizes increasing the sharing of…

The St. Louis Cardinals, one of baseball’s most famous teams, is under investigation (by both Major League Baseball and the FBI) for allegedly hacking into a data warehouse compiled by the Houston Astros. At first blush, this seems…

Cybersecurity legislative and policy proposals have had to grapple with when (if ever) firms ought to be held liable for breaches, hacks, and other network intrusions. Current approaches tend to focus on the data that spills when bad things…